January 2012
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December 2011
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“So when I was in Wal-Mart, I saw that they had these summoning kits for minor Catholic deities. And they had the little candle that you light and the proper prayer to invoke the relevant deity and ask for their help. And they had a kit to summon Jesus in his judge aspect.”
-My bro, putting it all into perspective rather hilariously.
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pdxrain:
How to be a Spiritual Atheist - Mindfulness Meditation
Pragmatic magic* FTW.
I wish there were more people who could be like “no, I don’t really know why it works, nor am I going to try to push some pseudoscientific or dogmatic explanation onto you; I just know I feel better for doing it and that’s why I do it.”
*Aleister Crowley defined magic as “the...
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Who owns your soul?
What makes us who we are - our soul, essentially - is the sum of our experiences and memories. So I ask you: who owns your soul?
(MCB - Major Corporate Business.)
Think of your favorite songs. How many of them are owned by MCBs? Think of your favorite childhood toys. How many of them were produced by MCBs? Think of your favorite movies and series. How many of them were produced by MCBs?...
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My definition of a witch, and what witches...
I define a witch as one who uses tools (physical or astral/mental) to affect changes on the physical plane (particularly within the sphere of one’s personal life, and anything that immediately interacts with your person) by invoking a “higher” power for a purpose that is not mandated or specifically and expressly sanctioned by religious creed. This power can be anything...
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BitShare: The plot thickens with the SOPA...
bitshare:
Holy smokes, can this be true? Quite possibly so. There is a video out by Jeepers Media and Mike Mozart that totally changes everything about SOPA. Not only was SOPA bad before, but these new allegations make SOPA very evil.
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Seriously, citizens of Tumblr, why aren’t you fighting SOPA harder? Do you just not CARE whether the US turns the Internet into a...
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Is the word "slur" (as in "racial slur") ableist?
…Considering that a person who suffered a brain injury might have slurred speech.
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A thing what bugs me in fiction: "Let's blend...
Every now and then, I come across a writer who thinks that “mixing magic and science” is the most original and clever thing to do, ever.
Similarly, there are the doe-eyed religious folks who opine that “science and faith need to work together!”
Invariably, I end up staring at these people as if they grew a third eye because it becomes readily and painfully clear that they...
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Why you shouldn't get tattoos in writing systems... →
Back when I first encountered Engrish.com, I often wondered how often English-speakers messed up Japanese and Chinese. Now I know.
If I weren’t already disinclined to get a hanzi or kanji tattoo due to cultural appropriation issues, this blog would definitely scare me off of Chinese and Japanese tattoos forever. XD
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WHOOOOOAAAAA DUUUUUDE...
I just learned that Stonehenge is made of rhyolite… which is what most of the rocks where I live are.
*EMBOGGLEMENT*
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5 Examples of Americans Thinking Foreign People... →
A marvelous Cracked.com article that points out the hypocrisy of white Americans when it comes to foreign cultures. Our ancient beliefs and magical systems? Superstition and balderdash! Their ancient beliefs and magical systems? PRICELESS WISDOM. Our writing system? Bleh, boring and mundane. Their writing system? MYSTERIOUS AND MAGICAL.
(There is some ableist language.)
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How to become a professional channeler in four...
(Yes, I’ve been spending too much time with the new agers again…)
1. Create a cool character (eg, an alien, an angel, or a priest from a long-lost civilization) with a vaguely Star Trek-ish name. For added points, add a title or rank that verges on nonsensical. For example, something along the lines of “Koronth the Archangel of Gravity.” 2. On a regular basis, write...
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If passed, how SOPA might affect freedom of...
Good news! SOPA hearings have been postponed until early next month. This is the best gift we could get for Yule; don’t waste it! See the bottom of the post for suggestions on what to do.
How the heck is a bill supposed to target internet piracy supposed to go after religion?
It’s quite simple.
SOPA works much like the DMCA - if an infringing site or a site merely linking to an...
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Got a book...
Just picked up Dictionary Of All Scriptures And Myths. Seems a bit New Age-y, but it was a big fat book with small print and only cost $2. Worst case scenario, I’ll scream and thrash my arms a bit. :P
Also, I hate to shoehorn this in but I’m doing it anyway because of its importance - SOPA hearings resume tomorrow. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read this...
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Audio and Podcasts . . . . .
witchyways:
if I were to do a podcast, audio classes on different pagan traditions, explaining rituals, ideas, ethics, and core concepts of the traditions, would you listen and follow along?
If they had something that interested me.
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NDAA and SOPA pushed through to target OWSers? →
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SOPA Hearings to Resume Wednsday, Dec. 21st →
Although we first heard that the hearings wouldn’t resume until January 3rd (giving us over two weeks to oppose it!), in actuality the hearings will resume on December 21st, giving us less than a week. I realize many of you are busy preparing for your Solstice/Yule celebrations on that day, but this is serious.
For those of you who’ve been living under a rock, SOPA, or the so-called...
H.R.3261 Stop Online Piracy Act
smokeandmirrorspolitcs:
So what’s going on with the United States? Obama originally said he would veto The National Defense Authorization Act with the current amendments but now he has decided to sign the Act with all the current amendments including 1031 and 1032 (see my prior blog for an explanation of said amendments). This will be a topic for another day; likely the day he signs it. ...
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SOPA VOTE DELAYED →
bizberry:
TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO GET INFORMED ABOUT THIS HORRIBLE BILL AND INFORM OTHERS.
CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES ABOUT REJECTING THE BILL.
DON’T LET CENSORSHIP HAPPEN.
NDAA ALREADY GOT THROUGH, DON’T LET THEM TAKE THE INTERNET AWAY AS WELL.
http://americancensorship.org/
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Saudi Woman Executed for Witchcraft (About.com)
pagannews:
ABC News reports that a Saudi woman has been beheaded for “practicing witchcraft and sorcery,” according to the Saudi Interior Ministry. The Arab newspaper al Hayat says that authorities who searched Amina bint Abdulhalim Nassar’s home found books on witchcraft and a number of glass bottles “full of an unknown liquid used for sorcery.” Interestingly, according to Saudi law,...
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What's happening in congress right now:
Any amendment that would make SOPA slightly less draconian gets shot down so hard, it isn’t even funny.
Anonymous asked: I'm confused about all of SOPA. What is going on?
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jeremycoatney:
Now, I’m not sure what to think about this, but the local server here has just started blocking most of the sites with dissenting views on SOPA. They literally can’t be loaded from within this internet access network.
WTF.
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Y'all watching the video feed of the SOPA hearing? →
Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Chaffetz, and Mr. Polis have been awesome.
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Loki, if you're listening...
Please kick SOPA, Protect-IP, and all that to the curb, kthxbai.
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If I Were A Poor Black Kid →
microaggressions:
Forbes writer Gene Marks, a white man, attempts to put himself in the shoes of lower class black youth. Check out the satirical responses by Scientific American, WNYC, The Atlantic and others.
The responses are truly epic. :D
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TILFT #191:
Anything even remotely supernatural in origin or semblance is delusional, even though the DSM defines delusions as “false beliefs based on incorrect inference about external reality that persist despite the evidence to the contrary and these beliefs are not ordinarily accepted by other members of the person’s culture or subculture”.
THIS. Likewise, I occasionally see certain people insisting...
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“Loki is the god of those who don’t fit in, outcasts who are different, who try...”
– -Linda Fate D. (it’s a facebook conversation and hard to find as they’re all under “read more…”, it’s the one that starts with “Honor is defined by deeds. Okay. So let’s start at the beginning.”)
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So I've noticed a lot Lokeans recently...
witchyways:
At first I thought, “oh, Loki’s probably just becoming fashionable because teenagers.”
But.
Here’s a better theory:
I live in a police state (USA). I am privileged to still have freedoms, but I never know when they will be taken away. The world is in an uprising right now. There are loud voices of protest everywhere, but it seems that the steamroller of big government and...
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"And I swear I'll save your broken heart": Ok so... →
Ok so far, according to Fundies: - Satan wants to bring about world peace. - Satan wants gender, sexual, racial, and ethnic equality. - Satan encourages people to think and reason and make their own moral decisions. - Satan encourages personal freedom, control over one’s own body and mind. - Satan doesn’t judge people for being humans with natural flaws and animal urges.
You know, this Satan...
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Turtles Rock: What Grinds My Gears: I don't... →
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randomselective:
“You are only able to say something like that because of your white priviledge”
“You think that way only because of your cisgendered priviledge” blah blah blah
People on here whine like Robert from Everybody Loves Raymond about what they consider other people’s priviledges. They think people…
Damn right I expect handouts.
I expect potential employers to...
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SANTERIA PLOT. OH REALLY!
goingtohel:
Miami. It seems odd…. two North Miami Beach employees, one a police officer and the other a department manager were attempting to perform a NON-MALICIOUS spell on the city manager who was going to slash the police budget.
The Santeria spell involved sprinkling “seeds” near his office.
They asked a janitor to help and she turned them in!
The department manager was FIRED and the...
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The (real) big sinister agenda.
Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfactions, our ego satisfactions, in consumption. The measure of social status, of social acceptance, of prestige, is now to be found in our consumptive patterns. The very meaning and significance of our lives today expressed...
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hipmomma:
Doesn’t the thought of it scare anyone else to the core?
A world controlled by satanists? Occult rituals? Monarch programming?
Why is it when I search the tags on tumblr its just a bunch of teenaged girls making a joke out of it.
“LOL NEW WORLD ORDER ITS SO KEWL”
It’s not so very funny to me.
….I have to make my older sister stop listening to jay z now……
Yes, you do. This...
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TILFT #97:
It’s perfectly okay to treat people who are uninformed on a topic in the same hateful manner you would an actual bigot.
This one never ceases to kill me off. I don’t care how sick and tired you are of hearing the same ignorant newbie questions over and over, there’s no excuse for it. Like it or not, we really do hurt our causes by getting angry.
This goes especially for the...
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“When you talk to your child about the Tooth Fairy, you’re actually telling...”
– Stephen Dollins
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It's that time of year...
…When the fluffy bunnies come out in full force to insist that each and every aspect of Christmas was deliberately appropriated and stolen from the pagans by the Catholic Church, up to and including Jesus himself, who is “really” the sun god Mithras warmed over or some nonsense.
Unfortunately, it just ain’t so. Many pagan practices weren’t stolen, but retained and...
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Carroll County Board of Education: Stop... →
hvisla:
Christopher Turner is an 11-year-old student from Bowden, Georgia. As October came to a close, the Turner family was preparing for Samhain, a Pagan holiday of giving thanks and remembering the lives of their ancestors.
Samhain fell on Monday, October 31, 2011. Just as with any religious holiday, Christopher did not attend school. When he returned on Tuesday morning his teacher, Connie...
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Federal Court Rules Videotaping Police Is A First... →
shivian:
Thank the gods! Very welcoming ruling indeed.
Proof that there is good in this world and that it is worth fighting for!
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How to Raise an Oppressor in 7 Easy Steps
1. Teach your child that because you are an adult, you are the ultimate human authority figure in their lives, and thus must be implicitly respected. This will teach them that simply becoming an adult will entitle them to respect and authority no matter how horrible they are. 2. Teach your child that you are more deserving of respect because you’re the one bringing home the bacon. Then...